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Posts tagged on dying

Politics of Life

Dying is “certainly the most important time of my life.”

storiesCaren MartineauJanuary 20, 2020photography, video, film, first-person, on dying, message, meaning, love, Philip Gould, Phillip Gould, dying

#dodeathdifferently

End-of-life for an advocate of “doing death better.”

storiesCaren MartineauNovember 24, 2019doing death better, dying, on dying, hospice, gratitude, love, emotions, death with dignity, celebrate, video, good death, a good death, what is a good death, what does a good death look like

We Must Die Differently

Stephen Jenkinson asks why aren’t we allowed to say dying?

wisdomCaren MartineauJanuary 3, 2019Jenkinson, Stephen Jenkinson, on dying

Headshots

Celebrity photographer focuses his lens on death’s face.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJuly 17, 2018Rankin, faces of death, alive in the face of death, photography, on dying, portraits of death, portraits

Medicine & Meaning

Atul Gawande on what really matters when we discover our mortality.

wisdom, the big ideasCaren MartineauJuly 15, 2018video, Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, book, interview, medicine, doctors, on dying

Ripple Effect

Drawing from life in order to open new windows of the past and the future.

art, artists, cultureCaren MartineauJune 30, 2018Denis Johnson, on dying, wisdom, last works, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ursula K. LeGuin

Rock Your Playlist

Have you made your sendoff soundtrack?

celebrateCaren MartineauJune 11, 2018music, playlist, singing will, on dying, bedside, soundtrack

Yes, Angels Exist

Music made to accompany the dying.

celebrateCaren MartineauMay 11, 2018harp, thanatology, thanatologist, music, bedside, on dying, comfort, transition

What Mortality Makes Possible

Creating a Rilke Book of Days after her husband died an unexpected death.

wisdomCaren MartineauMay 6, 2018Rilke, poetry, writing, on dying, mortality, Joanna Macy, Krista Bennett, the big ideas

Lessons for the Living

“We are not used to dealing with death in a matter-of-fact way.”

storiesCaren MartineauApril 17, 2018first-person, video, hospice, lessons, wisdom, on dying, Kathleen, hospice volunteer, aging